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Typing of Pneumocystis jirovecii isolates from Iranian immunosuppressed patients based on the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region of the rRNA gene.
Medical mycology - 1 Nov 2013
Sheikholeslami Maryam-Fatemeh, Sadraei Javid, Farnia Parissa, Forozandeh Moghadam Mehdi, Emadi Kochak Hamid
Abstract excerpt
Since there have been no published molecular studies of Pneumocystis jirovecii isolates from Iranian patients, we investigated the genotypes of such isolates recovered from HIV-infected patients, those undergoing cancer chemotherapy and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). P. jirovecii typing, based on ITS1 and ITS2 sequence analysis, was performed on 34 isolates from Iranian...
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